How did you afford all the consoles and systems in the 80s/90s? Let me guess. You begged your parents. >There is still that one console that you hate your mom and dad for not buying you.
You bought it second hand. I got a Saturn in 98 with over 2000 dollars worth of games and accessories in current day prices for 20 dollars from someone i knew because they wanted money for something else. N64 and game boy color was a Christmas gift. PlayStation i found for sale at a used goods store in 99 for cheap. My dad gave me my own from his old one when he built a new rig. Everything older was found a thrift stores and yard sales or heavily liquidated at stores, like the game gear core system variant was 30 dollars at retailers. Got a Dreamcast for my birthday. It was not hard to do. Unless you grew up incredibly poor, a Christmas + birthday one year got you 2 systems or a system + handheld. Plus just saving you own money if need be.
I had a PC
>>12490564*dad gave me my own computer
>>12490564ThisI got my Dreamcast for $30 from a high school friend. Traded Yugioh cards for peripherals and games from others.
traded shit back and forth between friends and video game stores
>>12490530>How did you afford all the consoles and systems in the 80s/90s?Console sales usually start out slow and then spike a couple years later after the price comes down and there are lots of good deals on games. Only the rich kids and die hard fans got their shit early. So instead of paying $299 for a PlayStation + $100 for a couple of games, they end up spending $150 for the console and $50-60 for a couple of older games. People saved up a bit of money in the intervening years too while waiting for the inevitable price drop.>Let me guess. You begged your parents.This too, at least for kids and youths.
>>12490583never did any grass mowing or leaf removal? can collection? shoe shining? chimney sweeping?
I never asked they just bought them all because we were rich and they gave a shit about us. But it became kind of this console is mostly used by one kid and this one by the other because we kept them in our rooms. I did ask for games but was also gifted games.The only console we didn't get was gamecube but I had tons of stuff and my neighbor had it so I tried out games there. And wii bevause we moved out by then and who gives a shit about wii.
>>12490530I played my console I owned and went to a friend's house and played the console he owned. Simple as.
>>12490530Colecoviison: hand me down from uncleNES: christmas 1987Genesis: sold christmas treesSNES: delivered newspapersSegaCD: the last year I sold christmas trees486dx 33: family computerPlaystation: part time job during universityPentium 233MMX: had part time job building PCs for local computer place, paid me in partsPS2: my first grown up job after finishing universityPS3/360/wii/PS4/switch and PS5 were very easy to afford as a grown up with career
>>12490530The consoles I got growing up were either heavily discounted (VB/Saturn) or second hand (NES/SNES), with the exception being the N64 in which I worked a summer job to get.
>>12490530having friends and we lent each other consoles and games to play shit like shining force 2 and secret of mana or we hooked up both with two tv sets in someone’s basement for a weekend and brought all our games. nes parties with 20 games, stay up all night drinking soda
I had to sell my bussy, but in the end it was totally worth it.
>>12490530It's the type of thing you'd get for Christmas or your birthday. It's not a spur of thr moment type purchase.
>>12490530I was spoiled. Had nes, snes, ps1, dreamcast, ps2.by that time I had a job so I started really getting into pc gaming around 2002 and spending lots of money on upgrades
>>12490530Mowed lawns, pulled weeds, shoveled snow. Honest work.
>>12490530The 360 was the first console I bought with my own money. The ones before my parents bought for me.
>>12490530my parents were immigrants but they could afford me a crt, snes, ps1, ps2. I dont remember prices being such a big deal.
>>12490530I had a PC as a kid.
birthdays/christmas/etcusually got new consoles at christmas
>>12490530My parents spoiled the shit out of me. Growing up I had a>NES>Gameboy standard/pocket/color>gamegear>n64>ps1>dreamcast>Xbox>Gameboy advance>Gamecube>ps2>DS>psp>Xbox 360I had nothing to complain about my parents where fucking great.
>>12490530my parents were somehow epic enough to buy them without even much begging. which surprises me that they would have even known enough to get the good ones because they knew nothing about consoles or games. the games they picked were actually amazing ones too.
